Nantes

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

A city of western France on the Loire River west of Tours. The Edict of Nantes, granting limited religious and civil liberties to the Huguenots, was issued in 1598 by Henry IV of France and revoked in 1685 by Louis XIV. Population: 282,000.

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proper n. A city in west France, in historical Brittany

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In zoology, in Linnæus's system of classification, the third order of the third class, Amphibia, including the Chondropterygii of Artedi, or the sharks, rays, chimæras, and marsipobranchs, and some true fishes erroneously considered to be related to them. See Amphibia, 2 .

The FSSP apostolate in Nantes, France, recently sent in some news and photographs of their Solemn Mass on the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany -- as a point of note, since it will likely be asked, the church they celebrate within is not their own.

I know there's a lot of it - I did a panel on steampunk a few years ago in Nantes and it was horrible, being surrounded by steampunk writers telling me about their (very cool sounding) books and I can't read any of them!

The weather in Nantes was sadly atrocious -- freezing cold and raining -- plus Saturday was a public holiday and today everything was closed as well plus I wasnt up to a lot but I did see inside the cathedral and that was great.